The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1887-05-07

Millstreet to Keetfe's farm which is sit
uated about five miles from Millstreet.
During the greater part of the way Nc
Nally was shouting for Land Leaguers
and challenging those of the whole
country to combat. At Cullen, about
one mile from their destination, a ser
want girl employed by a. farmer named
Daniel Cronin, was met by the party
going for water. The emergency man
jumped off the car and followed her to
the house of her masters father, an old
man abo,.t eighty years of age. The
girl, it appears, succeeded in entering
before him, and Mr.. McNally then be-
gan kicking at the door and calling for
the Land Leaguers to come forth. No
one having replied to his summons, he
left, and shortly afterwards came across
a laborer named Cornelius Leblanc,
whom he followed into his owl yard
and pressing a revolver against him,
said: ''You bloody Land Lacquer, 1
will shoot YOU" He also threatened a
boy that he would shoot him. Before
McNally was able to do any further
damage, the police came UP and took
him away. Keeffe, III the meantime,
remained on the car, and seeing two
girls named Mary O'Sullivan and Mar
garet Hickey coming along the road,
told them to go through the fields, so as
to avoid being molested by McNally,
who, after some difficulty, was got on
the car, which then proceeded to
Keeffe's farm. The police afterward
took no action towards prosecuting Nc
Nally. and their silence about the mat
ter can only be accounted for in the fact
that both they and Mentally imbibed
more than was good for them. The
parties whom McNally had been threat
ening applied for warrant for his ar
rest to Mr.. Benjamin Leader, j. p, who
refused to grant the warrant, but adj
yised them to summon him. Before
this could be done, Mentally decamped.
taking with him a horse which he had
brought to Keeffe's farm on his arrival
there. Perhaps the Cork Defense I'm
ion could tell where he is at present.
DERRY.
The tenants of the SINNERS Com
pany at Draperstown were evicted
April 10, and many heart rending
scenes are being enacted. One poor
family barricaded the doors and cut
away the staircases leading to the floor
above. The officers broke down the
doors and by means of la 1ders ousted
tenants from their home, leaving them
and their furniture piled on the road
side.
FERMANAGH.
At Bohoe, County Fermanagh, says
United Ireland, April 8, a meeting of
splendid proportions was held last Sun
day for the purpose of giving aid and
encouragement to the tenantry of Mr..
Lestrange, of Sligo, who are seeking for
reduct ion of rent. Mr.. Lestrange has
given an earnest OF his intentions on
the subject by the eviction of nine of
their body. The Rev. Father Cullinane,
who was in the chair, devoted some of
his speech to the evils Of land and grass
grabbing, and the virtues of boycotting
and combination as weapons for fight
ing unjust landlords. Both Of these
were necessary, and neither of them
could be put down by coercion actsor
any other means. Mr.. Wray, solicitor,
of Enniskillen, said he regarded the in
PRODUCTION of the Coercion bill by the
Tory Government as a matter for con-
graduation, for all the preceding ones
had been failures. All they had to do
to make this one another failure was to
stand together. Spirited speeches to
the same effect were delivered by the
Rev. Father McNeal and Mr.. Skeffing-
ton, of Enniskillen.
GALWAY.
Mr.. Joyce, who recently resigned the
agency of the Clanricarde estate in Gal
way because of alleged harshness of his
employer toward his tenants which led
to the arrest and imprisonment Of
Father Fahey, has begun legal suit
against the Marquis of Clanricarde, lay
ing his damages at 100000.
KILKENNY.
United Ireland says: A fine historic
figure which had for some time been
out of the public view has passed away
on the very eve, probably, of the
triumph of the great principle of which
he was foremost champion. Werefer
to the famous Father Tom O'Shea, as
he was affectionately known to the
Irish people, Canon and z. z. of Noun
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